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• Blue Is the Warmest Color

  Maroh, Jul, 1985-

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  Blue is the Warmest Color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. Clementine, a high school student, has an average life: she has friends, family, and the romantic attention of the boys in her school. When her openly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blue is the warmest color : parts 1 & 2

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  The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman's experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Call Me by Your Name

  Aciman, André

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  Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' house, a cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Call Me by Your Name

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  In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father's research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the beguiling Italian landscape.

• The Price of Salt

  Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995

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  The Price of Salt is the story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of Carol Arid, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce. They fall in love and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Carol

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  Adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel The Price of Salt, Carol is the story of two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Danish Girl

  Ebershoff, David

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  A stunning first novel that probes the mysteries of sex, gender, and love with insight and subtlety. Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Danish Girl

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  The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

• Brokeback Mountain

  Proulx, Annie

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  The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of "Brokeback Mountain," and the story was included in Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards. In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brokeback Mountain

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  Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color Purple

  Walker, Alice, 1944-

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  Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this is the story of two sisters, one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South, who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. This…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color Purple

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  Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple is a richly-textured, powerful film set in America's rural south. Whoopi Goldberg makes a triumphant screen debut as the radiant, indomitable Celie, the story's central…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

  a Simonverse Novel

  Albertalli, Becky,

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  Simon's junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he's pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love, Simon

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  Everyone deserves a great love story, but for seventeen-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fingersmith

  Waters, Sarah, 1966-

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  Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby. Mrs. Sucksby’s household also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a London slum is home. Gentleman, an elegant con man,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The handmaiden

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  Set in 1930s Korea during the Japanese occupation, director Park Chan-wook's romantic melodrama revolves around Sookee (Kim Tae-ri), who is recruited to help a con man known as Count Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo) in his plans to seduce the lovely and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Single Man

  Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986

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  When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Single Man

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  After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, a series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is meaning to his life after all.

• Disobedience

  Alderman, Naomi

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  The story begins with the death of the community's esteemed rabbi, which sets in motion plans for a memorial service and the search for a replacement. The rabbi's nephew and likely successor, Dovid, calls his cousin Ronit in New York to tell her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Disobedience

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  A woman returns to the community that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.